When I setup a system, I like to partition the drive – dividing the drive into many multiple logical drives. This makes backing up and restoring data easy. I was liking Partition Wizard for the last few months .. until I lost data. Warning – stay away from this program.

Seagate’s last generation of hard drives (7200.11) had problems. The original reports indicated that the drives performed poorly in a RAID array. Seagate compounded the problem by issuing a firmware fix that sometimes “bricked” the hard drive. Ouch!!

Okay, I’m exaggerating, but it seems like it. If you are a US citizen, travel abroad and return home, your laptop computer can be seized and searched and returned up to 30 days later. It’s pretty crazy if you ask me. Anyway, read about it here.

The best-sounding guitars are made with a sitka spruce top and rosewood back and sides. One of the best guitar manufacturers is Larrivee. Why? It’s about the wood. Larrivee gets their sitka spruce from the great Canadian wilderness. In fact the trees may be 200-300 years old. Great care is taken to harvest these trees. Read about it from Larrivee’s website.

The standard keyboard layout of your computer is called QWERTY. It was invented in the early 1870s to SLOW down your typing – because of the key jamming associated mechanical keyboards of that era. Unfortunately, modern society has been cursed with this layout. Are there some better layouts? Yes.